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Or. Martin Luther King, Jr. Says, MADDOX’S VICTORY MAY SPARK RACE WAR Sessions Begin Mere Oct. 13 NAACP’s Current Will Keynote 4**¥44 4 4 4 4 4- STILL HELD IN HUSBAND’S DEATH Convention Will Hear Leaders The i i Annual Convention of •' North ( arolina State Co . -if cr of Pianches, Na t ■ al V sociation for the Ad vancement of Colored People v ill nu-ei in thi> citv October 13-16 inclusive. Clo • B. Current, Direc tor Brand: anti Field Opera tions v ill deliver the Keynote Address Friday evening, Oc tobe? 14th, 8 o’clock in the Raleigh United Church, the Rev. S. Cel!lns Kilburn is the pas tor. 1 is!.op Stephen Gill Spotts wood, NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman will ad- ress a Dinner Meeting of the host..; Mooting on Thursday, Cctobei 1 •' at 6:00 P.M. All sessions o: the Ministers Meet ing ill be held in the First Baptist Church, where the Rev. C.w. Ward is pastor. The Rev. J. T. McMillian, pas:;., St. James A.M. E. Churei and militant chairman o: the Winston-Salem Branch Education Committee, will be the Keyta r Speaker for the Minis: ■ Meeting. Rev. Dr. Carroll M, Felton, Jr., presi- Jer*'. i ; isquotank County, Brand, at, 1 pastor of Mount Lebanon ..V. . Zion Church Elizabeth City, and Rev. F.L. Andrews, president of the Per quimans County Branch will »1- (B#e CURRENT WILD. P. 2) ! SWEEPSTAKES NUMBERS \ jj 899 5469 4343 ! « Worth $25 Worth sls Worth $lO ! ~ iavin<; current BLUE TICKET, dated Oct 1* 196*’. with proper numbers, present same 8 office and receive amounts iistea above from the SWEEPSTAKES FEATURE. EDITORIAL FEATURE The Thought Exchange By Gordon B. Hancock TEAM-WORK THE ANSWER Yesterday sports-casters spread the news that Colgate University, a small college from up state New York, sent to New' York a football team that defeated great Columbia 38-0. Colgate’s football team was quarter-backed by a Negro for the first time in Colgate’s great foot ball history. A Negro quarter-back, and that he must be good needs no guessing! Quarterbacks do not win games by themselves, they only direct the team and call the plays that win the games— if indeed the games are won. It takes team-work to win football games and all other games of sport that match team against team. Our civil rights game has yet to be won as our “Nowists” must plainly see. The very failure of the lat est civil nghts legislation through the age-old threat of a Southern filibuster is positive proof that we are still far from the Promised Land of full citizen ship. Os course, we are battering at the gates but there are still Jericho and Ai walls to be stormed. The stubborn bas tions of color prejudice and segregation still remain unbroken. Our current situ ation calls for team work, and this pre supposes a quarterback. One of the most serious problems of the hour is the ques tion of quarterbacks. We have at pres ent too many would-be quarterbacks! Under such circumstances team-work is out of the question and until we have team-work we cannot advance of cause of civil rights toward which preceptible gains have been made that only cynics and pessimists can deny. Wolves can cooperate finely as long as they are pur suing the prey, but once the prey is tak en the wolves fight bitterly in the divis ion of the prey. Anthropologists tell us that man has something of the wolf in him and like the wolves men can co operate up to a certain point in pursuit of desired objectives, and then the fight begins. Negroes have come upon such points in pursuit of the great goal of civil rights, so there is fighting among ourselves that could ruin our earliest prospects of winning our way into full citizenship. We have a plethora of quar terbacks, all of whom are without a pro gram of deliverance for the Negro mass es, A Phillip Randolph speaking in At lantic City warned that . . . “Civil rights leaders should take great care in over- . / IP %, ' v* -> * ... " r " N FOR TH F CH AJR M AN -- Wn shirigt on; Pro silent Lyndon Raines Johnson hands a pen to Rep. Adam Clavton Powell, Jr., (D. N.Y.), chairman of the powerful House Ed ucation ana Labor Committee last week, after the Chief Executive signed into law a bill to extend Federal minimum coverage to $B.l billion more workers and raise the level CPnts an hour 1968. In the background are: Rep. Wiliam Ayres (R.-O) left, and Secretary of Labor W Wil lard Wirtz. (UPI PHOTO). ‘ Schools’ Aid Urged According to \V. R. Collins, Hammocks Beach Expansion Director, a recent new pro ject has met the unanimous ap proval of the Hammocks Board. The Crepe Myrtle Shrub has been selected as the flowering attraction for the Hammocks Beach Property. Public schools heating the black ghettos of explosive tensions which could shift into a race var that could become catastrophic to the Negro and America.” He goes on: “We know that the public has lost some of the sympathy for the civil rights movement. The throwing of molotov cocktails is not the answer. Black Power is simply a slogan and you cannot solve problems by slogans.” I wish he had added neither can we solve problems by cretory and subtle threats against the dominant white structures. While Ran dolph was using hard-headed common sense in Atlantic City, Matrin Luther King was saying in Charlotte, N. C. this wise: “Striped Power—’black and white side by side.” This came dangerously near saying what Booker T. Washington said in his great Atlanta speech which echoed the doctrine that “Negroes and whites of the South could be as one fist in things economic but as separate as the fingers in things social. Os course, Washington was bitterly damned by Ne groes who wished what he said was not true; but it was true. Time has vindi cated Washington because the races in the South have been for 300 years as one as the fist in things economic and as separate as the fingers in things so cial. Wishing it were not so does not al ter stubborn facts. But it is still a ques tion how Dr. King can strive for integra ion and at the same time advocate side by sideness. We thought of one-ness rather than side by sideness. The Ku Klux Klan is sold on the side by side program. Dr. King is a man of great consummate ability as it is fer vently to be hoped how soon he may overcome the “oratory complex” and come up with some kind of program for the race in general and the masses in particular. In his subtle dig at the war in Viet Nam his point is harder to see. for he surely must see that if we are de feated in Viet Nam America will ulti mately suffer and civil rights under Communism would not even be a re mote dream. To juxtopose our war in Viet Nam and civil rights was unfortu nate! They are parts of the same thing and not opposites. Now Congressman Powell is calling a meeting of Negro greats. Soon Randolph will be calling, then Carmichael and McKissick and Meredith. Too many quarterbacks! We need team-work! United we stand, di vided we indefinitely postpone. Team work is the only answer! and colleges will be asked to become sponsors of the Crepe Myrle Shrub Project by donating the cost of one or more of the shrubs. The Board directed that the road leading through the pro perty from highway number 24 (See SCHOOLS URGED. P. 2) Martin St. Man Found In His Bed A 49-year-old Raleigh wo man, charged with the pistol murder of her husband last Wednesday night, was to re ceive a preliminary hearing in City Court at 2 p.m. Wednes day of this week. At CARO LINIAN press time, she had not received the hearing. Mrs. Annie Lee Newkirk, of 412 1/2 E, Martin Street (base ment apartment) was taken to Wake County Jail early Thurs day morning under charges of murdering her 50-year-old mate, James Ernest (Bud) New - kirk. According to Detective Lt. Larry Macon Smith, the police department was summoned to the Newkirk residence around 6:25 a.m. Thursday, where of ficers found Newkirk in bed, dead of a gunshot wound in the left chest. Smith stated he was unable to reveal any other information of an evidentiary nature in the f*M MMM MA, V,_l) FIRST TAN POLICE LT. IN NC,--For the first time in the history of High Point, a Negro has been appointed to a policy making position in the city's police department. Oriel H. Leak, 49, a much decorated veteran policeman of 23 years service, was promoted to lieu tenant in the detective division of the department last week by Police Chief Laurie Pritchette. Iri announcing the appointment Chief Pritchette, who recently came to High Point from Al bany, Georgia, stated that Mr. Leak will have the full autho rity of his position. He will conduct investigations in every section of the city and also be in charge of a shift of detec tives. He Is married to the former Vernell McClellan. Buium Due to an error in a head line last week, the impression was given that Mrs. Frankie Muse Freeman, St. Louis At torney, and the only female member of the Civil Rights Commission, would be here last Sunday. However, the noted speaker will highlight the morning ser vices at the Martin Street Baptist Church Sunday, Oc tober 9, at 11 a.m. The occasion is the annual Woman’s Day service at the church. The public is invit ed to hear Attorney Freeman. Three Claim Sweepstakes Winnings The new CAROLINIAN Sweepstakes numbers are: 899, first prize, worth $25; 5469, second, worth sls; and 4343, third, worth $lO. The winning tickets must be blue In color and dated Octo- MRLVIN HIGH 1 1 VOL. 25, NO. 46 Love's Lane Rifle Fire Shatters Night's Calm 2 Jailed ii Melee With Gobi BY CHARLES R. JONES This City’s Love’s Lane (mentioned often the The Crime Beat) w r as again in ttie news, and quite prominently this time, after a rifle shooting spree end ed with two men being arrest ed. The eipsode had a tinge of the Old West, combined with a modern-day love triangle. Detective Sgt. M.L. Stephen son, of the Raleigh Police De partment, was on the scene and reported at 6:01 p.m. Friday, that Allen Spencer, 46, of 3011/2 Dorothea (Cannon Street) Drive was in the 300 block of Love’s Lane, located off E. Davie St., between S. Person andS. Blood worth, firing a rifle at Mrs. Thelma L. Cotton, his alleged girlfriend, who was with Johnny Goggins, address un listed. “Bullets were hitting the j ground at their feet,’" it was [reported. Mrs. Cotton and Gog gins were said to be running toward E. Davie Street at the time. One of the rifle bullets glanc ed off the ground and richfeted through the glass window at (See LOVE'S LANE. P 2) Tan Viel Soldier- Respect NEW YORK - Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of U. S. forces in Viet Nam, Sunday praised the role of the fighting Negro soldier, calling it "one of the dramatic stories of the war.” “In an interview in the cur rent Issue of Look Magazine, Gen. Westmoreland said that in Vietnam the Negro soldier "has the self-respect he didn’t have before. You can’t tell the dif ference between Negro and white soldiers.” The former World War n and Korea veteran also had words of praise for the ability and courage of all U. S. troops fighting in Vietnam, rating them the best he has commanded. The U. S. fighting man is "better trained, better motiva ted, more intelligent and in bet ter shape, ” Westmoreland said. "I’ve never joined the chorus that he was getting soft. I know he’d do well, but he’s never done better.” In the Look interview, Gen. Westmoreland predicted that the next generation of a merican leaders will emerge from the jungle battlefields of Vietnam. "From this experience will develop our finest officers and NCO’s and our finest citizens,” he said, “I think in 15 years, we’ll see them in Congress, in local and even national office. They'll be ready for the chal lenge.” ber 1, 1966. Last week, for the second time, all three Sweepstakes prizes were won-two ladies and one gentlemen were the lucky and happy recipients of a to tal of s™ i l MRS. CAROLYN L. HILL North Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1966 COPS JOSTLE WOMAN—San Francisco: Police jostle an unidentified woman as they break up a meeting of Negro demonstrators at a neighborhood gathering place, where they met late one night last week in the wake of shooting a Negro youth which touched off a rampage in the southern section of the city. (UPI PHOTO). Sees Violent Days Ahead For Nation After Segregationist Beats Moderate ATLANTA—(NPI)—'The pri mary election victory of segre gationist Lester Maddox may help start a “full-scale racial war in this country,” Dr, Mar tin Luther King, Jr., has as serted. “This state’s race relations have worsened recently,” he said, “and Maddox’s victory could make them even worse.” Maddox is remembered as the advocate of violence and dis respect for law and order, who could put the law into the hands of the few. Carrying a pistol in his hand, Maddox drove away Negro cus tomers who sought service at his Pickwick restaurant. The pistol-packing racist said God was his campaign manager. Maddox’s victory came as a surprise to the segregationist and others in the state who Negro History Sessions Will Draw Dignitaries BALTIMORE —Educator s and interested persons from fifty leading American colleges and universities, top govern ment officials, renowed histori ans, administrators of private institutions and foundations will converge on Morgan State Col lege, October 21-23, for the 51st annual meeting of the Associa tion for the Study of Negro Life and History, (See NEGRO HISTORY, P. 2) Mrs. Sallie S. McAllisterf3l6 New Rand Rd., Garner, won First Prize last week in the Sweepstakes with the lucky ticket number 4709, worth $25 Mrs. McAllister was very ex dee SWEEPSTAKES. P *> MRS. SALLIE MvXLI.BTER J expected Ellis G. Arnall, a racial moderate, to win the i W ' Hjj 3 . m ™ i 2* TURNED AWAY AT CHURCH Macon, Ga.: Sam Jerry Oni, a Nigerian attending Mercer U niversity here, walks to class last week. Oni was one of several Negro Students turned away from the Tattnall Baptist Church, whose members asked their pastor, the Rev, Dr. Tho mas J. Holmes and two of his assistants to resign for advo cating opening services to Ne groes. (UPI PHOTO). From Raleigh’s Official Police Filers »*pg **» #*l%f If V* f* Ji f sJ| JL # aJft ffiMJL Bjf Mg M 1 ific vnum emm § Discovery Os A Marriage Costly Miss Thelma Morton, 22, of 605 Dorothea (Cannon St) Dr., came to police headquarters at 11 a.m. Monday and reported that she was “going with a man and found out he was married and informed him of this. The incident took place Friday night at her home. She said she further told him that she “would not have any thing more to do with him” and advised him to “leave me alone.” Miss Morton stated he be came angry, began cursing, then started to beat her with his hands and fists. “All the neigh bors heard this,’’said the young woman. She said the man then took her shoes and tore the tele phone out to prevent her from calling the cops. However, she signed a war rant, charging J. Wilbur Thorpe 37, of 602 s. West Street, with assault and battery. He weighs 280 pounds. Miss Morton declared that his' wife and new bahv . • - hospital nov,, PRICE 15 CENTS • Democratic nomination for gov ! ernor. Maddox’s success left Geor gians with a choice between two Goldwater men in Novem i her. Maddox will face segregatio | aist Republican Howard H. Cal . laway in the general election. ! Callaway is said to be only ! slightly less of a racist. . Temperatures for the next ' five days, Thursday through • Monday, wlii average two to j seven degrees below normal. Sj Normal high and low tempera tures for the area will be li ■ and 32. Mostly cool nights and j mild days will prevail I throughout the period. Pre cipitation will total less than . one-third of an inch, occur- I ring as occasional rain or • showers,, near the end of the period. ’Appreciation’ Day Will Open State Fair Mon. “Oper at ion Appreciation” will be the formal opening pro gram of the 99th North Car olina State Fair, at 10 a.m, (See 'APPRECIATION,' P. 2) ’Lollipop’ Gets In Sticky Mess Arthur Harold Hemenway, a white Fort Bragg soldier, re ported to “the law” at 1:35 a.m Sunday, that he was headed south on S. East Street in his automobile when he observed a car in front backing into a parking space. Hemenway said he drove up to the car and it backed into him. The complainant declared he then got out of the vehicle to see if there was any damage to the two autos. He said, at that time, Don ald Garner (Lollipop) Wilson, 31, a barber of the 900 block of Fayetteville Street, who was the other driver, also got out of his car and started beating him in the face with his hands and fists. Hemenway, who was cut over the left eye and on it, signed a warrant, charging assault and battery. Wilson was then taken to the “clink” and placed under a bond of *IOO
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